Nora had been training herself not to think too much about her kids. Not because she wanted to forget them - not at all - but because she wanted to remember them more accurately. For the same reason,...
Except for a small strip of shin that poked out from between the top of his socks and the bottom of his pants, his legs were purely theoretical.
Him reverse cowgirl-style,
And a smile with a missing tooth. I was an adorable
A girl from his English class who’d overdosed on sleeping pills after learning of the disappearance of her identical twin.
She would be a mentor and an inspiration to girls like herself, the quiet ones who'd sleepwalked their way through high school, knowing nothing except that they couldn't possibly be happy with any of...
It's like the human race has been programmed for misery.
Just a dark shape against an even darker background.
When your words are futile, you’re better off keeping them to yourself,
We don’t smoke for enjoyment. We smoke to proclaim our faith.
To this day, she’s still sad. Because there’s not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it. I’m just saying that I took the pain that was inside of...
The thing was to wear a bathing suit and look good in it, to somehow make yourself worthy of the scenario you were volunteering for.
NO SHOES? WE LOVE YOU!
I have actual dreams of Bruce Springsteen calling me up on stage to wear a bandanna and play rhythm guitar next to Little Steven.
The big day hadn’t gone the way she’d hoped, not that big days ever did. Birthdays,
An empty desk in the second row, a memorial to the girl who used to sit there.
What a beautiful bird, they kept telling one another, which was a weird thing to say about a dead thing without a head.
Something that had possibly caused the distance between us, but might also bring us back together.
If anything, he seemed a little lonely, all too ready to open his heart at the slightest sign of interst.
Here’s why at the Jesus beds they can only talk about all the stupid shit they’ve done—because that’s all they are now, all they’re ever gonna be, a twitching bunch of memories and mistakes. Regrets....